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Business Risk Services
Our Business Risk Services team deliver practical and pragmatic solutions that support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses.
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Corporate Finance and Deal Advisory
We offer a dedicated team of experienced individuals with a focus on successfully executing transactions for corporates and financial institutions. We offer an integrated approach, with our corporate finance specialists working seamlessly with tax and other specialists to ensure that every angle is covered.
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Economic Advisory
Our all-island Economics Advisory team combines expertise in economics and business with a wealth of experience across the public and private sectors.
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Forensic Accounting
We have a different way of doing business by delivering real insight through a combination of technical rigour, commercial experience and intuitive judgment. We take pride in delivering responsive and tailored solutions to all our clients, capitalising on the wealth of experience housed within our Belfast and wider Forensics team
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People and Change Consulting
The Grant Thornton People & Change Consulting practice works with clients on these issues as well as on all aspects of how they attract, retain, engage develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Restructuring
We work with a wide variety of clients and stakeholders such as high street banks, private equity funds, directors, government agencies and creditors to implement solutions which provide the best possible outcomes.
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Technology Consulting
Motivating and assisting our clients to pursue, maintain and secure the benefits of digital solutions is at the core of our Digital Transformation teams' agenda and goals. We work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Corporate and International Tax
Northern Ireland businesses face further challenges as they operate in the only part of the UK that has a land border with a country offering a lower tax rate.
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Employer Solutions
Our team specialises in remuneration and incentive planning and works closely with employers, shareholders and employees to ensure that business strategies are aligned and goals achieved in the most tax efficient, cost-effective manner.
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Entrepreneur and Private Client Taxes
Our team of experienced advisors are on hand to guide you through any decision or transaction ranging from the establishment of new business ventures, to realising value on exit, to succession planning and providing for loved ones.
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Global Mobility Services
Grant Thornton Ireland offer a different approach to managing global mobility. We have brought together specialists from our tax, global payroll, people and change and financial accounting teams across Ireland and Northern Ireland, while drawing on the knowledge and insights of our global network of over 143 offices of mobility professionals to provide you with a holistic approach to managing global mobility.
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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced service provides valued service to over 150 separate PAYE schemes. These ranging from 1 to 1000 employees, working for micro, SME and global employers. The service is supported by the integrated network of tax and global mobility teams and the wider Grant Thornton network delivering a seamless service. Experienced staff deliver a personal service built around your business needs.
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Tax Disputes and Investigations
Our Tax Disputes and Investigation team is made up of tax experts and former HMRC investigators who have years of experience in dealing with a variety of tax investigations. Our expertise and insight can guide you through all interactions, keeping your cost at a minimum while allowing you to continue with the day to day running of your business.
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VAT and Indirect Taxes
At Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, our team helps Northern Ireland businesses manage their UK and global indirect tax risks which, as transactional taxes, can quickly become big liabilities.
Talent development during a crisis
06 Oct 2020How HR leaders can seize the opportunity
To say that HR teams are busy in the COVID-19 era would be an understatement. Now, more than ever, they are central to how companies are redesigning their people practices to build resilience and drive value.
The COVID-19 crisis is accelerating pre-existing trends in key areas of talent management that form part of any progressive organisation’s people strategy: attracting and retaining the best talent, people development, managing and rewarding performance, tailoring the employee experience, and optimising workforce planning to build future capacity. All of these are vital elements of the HR playbook in helping companies navigate new ways of working as employees gradually return to the workplace in the post-lockdown era.
For example, take learning and development; many of our clients are now faced with a choice between controlling cost pressures in a downturn with the need to deliver training to help workers adapt to a changing operating environment. HR leaders must see this as an opportunity and help shape a new agenda for learning and development, enabling their organisations to learn and grow through cost-effective training solutions. Examples of such an approach includes:
Broad-based digital training in critical skillsets: Many organisations are expanding remote training to address challenges, such as effective leadership of remote teams (a new skill set for most managers) and building personal resilience in difficult circumstances. Our team have been busy creating online COVID-19-related content on remote working, leadership, and wellbeing - capabilities that matter now more than ever before.
Focused upskilling rooted in changing work: Such forms of upskilling are function and team specific and tied to different ways of working. For example, HR and learning and development teams moving from a largely in-person to virtual or hybrid delivery model will need to be upskilled in the practices that drive successful virtual training design and delivery. The right approach can bolster employee performance—and help HR demonstrate significant value add.
Leadership development: An interesting corollary of the crisis has been that businesses have had to operate with much more agility in response to unprecedented challenges. This has seen the slow pace of corporate bureaucracy replaced by clear goals, focused teams, and rapid decision-making. HR leaders have a key role to play in making sure that this change sticks. Leadership development programmes can provide support for faster, more agile organisations. In particular, a company can identify the three to five shifts in leadership behaviour that would be required to keep them moving in a more focused way. Leaders who are working on these skills can spend a small amount of their learning time in formal settings (in classroom, online, or with a coach) and the majority of it working on real project-based business problems (which the current health crisis has naturally provided).
The pandemic has forced businesses to adjust rapidly to survive. The HR function continues to have a central role in managing the radical shifts facing workforces during this time. It will be exciting to see how Northern Ireland’s HR leaders evolve their talent practices during the recovery—and beyond.